Legion Crafted Gear Basics with Stat Priorities Per Class Spec for New Players and Veterans Alike

Intro

I’ve taken the time to put this guide together because I am raising one of just about every class in-game and didn’t see anything about what kind of crafted gear I should actually be getting for each class or specific spec for each class that I wanted to play. So, I made this guide for myself. I needed a place to store it too, so I’m sharing with anyone willing to look at it here on Wowhead. This should help anyone who looks here by a lot. Especially if you are new to the game. If you are a veteran of the game and are trying to upgrade your toons fast by use of crafted gear this should help you too. Even if you don’t need crafted gear this can help you by learning about your stat priorities. This is Player made gear that can be bought or sold through the Auction House or traded player to player. It's Bind on Equip gear.

I have every profession at 800 in between my characters. I don’t have all of the ranks on them but I don’t need all of the ranks to craft them. Not having the ranks just means it will cost more in materials to make the crafted item I want to make. I might be missing a recipe here or there too.

This is Legion gear that I am posting about. I started making this guide a week or so after patch 7.2.5 came out. One week after the release of Tomb of Sargeras. I’m just time stamping this here. 6/27/2017

Let’s get started.

Crafted Gear Basics

Crafted 110 gear when crafted now begins at item level 850 and can be upgraded up to 10 times reaching the item level of 900. You do this by using 1 Oblitérium and 2 Sang de Sargeras to upgrade the crafted item up by 5 item levels per each upgrade you want on that crafted item. If you do this 10 times the crafted item will be maxed out. So that would be 10 Oblitérium and 20 Sang de Sargeras that you would need to get to get you from item level 850 to 900 on the 1 item that you're looking to upgrade. You have to do this for each item you're looking to upgrade that is Legion craftable. At this time 900 is the highest item level any crafted gear can go to. I say this because the number of times you can upgrade items has gone up from the past. An entire set of crafted gear including a necklace, 2 rings and a cloak would now cost you Oblitérium x 120 and Sang de Sargeras x 240.

Next to items in this guide I have Cendre d'oblitérium = (Numbers). That number is the number of ashes I got from obliterating that kind of gear. If you see “??”, it's because I didn’t obliterate many of that item. I would have to obliterate more to get an average. You reading this could post how many ashes you get per item if you want. I only do it once in a while when I’m crafting, so those numbers will be blank for a long time if you don’t post yours.

Sang de Sargeras are soul bound. These you can get from doing different things. World Quests, Skinning, Fishing are just a few ways of getting them, there are many more ways. If you're revered with the warden’s faction you can pick up the shoulder enchant called Faveur du chasseur sanglant that allows you to every once in a while loot a Gibier du chasseur sanglant from the corpses that you loot. It contains between 1-5 Sang de Sargeras in it. There is a guide on this information that goes further into all of that. Click Here for that guide.

Most crafted items have base stats they start off with. The main stats of that item.

Stats

Main Stats

- Before you craft any item, you can see those particular stats in white or grey in your crafting book. It doesn’t matter if its Leatherworking, Tailoring, Blacksmithing, Engineering or Jewelcrafting. If there are any main stats on the item that you are looking to craft you will be able to see them before you spend any materials on it and they will be colored in white or grey. This helps you pick items per class that you are looking to make them for. If it’s in white, the character you’re on can use those stats. If it’s in grey, it is another class that can use that same item. These are set stats and will not change around. The only changes you will see in these stats are when you do upgrades to that item using Oblitérium and Sang de Sargeras. These stats will then go up a bit every time you upgrade the item until you max out the item at its cap.

Off stats

- Off stats of a crafted item are the secondary stats that are on a crafted item and are shown in Green. These stats are different from the main stats. These change around a bit. This is where you should be looking when you are looking to pick out Crafted Class Spec specific gear. Either when making it, or buying it off the Auction house or even another player. When I say Class Spec specific gear I mean, for example, let’s say a Hunter. A Hunter wears Mail and its 3 specs are Beast Mastery, Marksmanship, and Survival. For each one of those 3 specs, there are particular Off Stat priorities you would be looking for. Well, in the off stats of the crafted items is where you will find them. I noticed them while crafting gear and looking around on different websites. I found Stat Priorities of the different specs of all of the different classes. I have links to them further down.The Off Stats of crafted Items are not only in Green , but there are usually 2 stats that are there that are green. These are what I say are Priority Off Stats (POS) of crafted items.

Priority Off Stats (POS)

POS - These are the order of which the Off Stats go in. These change with the different kind of crafted items that are made. Yes, they change. They change in the number of points that are in the POS and in the order in which a POS has more points into them. For example: let’s say a POS is Haste, Mastery. You can find 979 Haste, 391 Mastery or 489 Haste, 881 Mastery or even 514 Haste, 514 Mastery. Notice that the first one is Haste>Mastery (Haste greater than Mastery) but the next one is Mastery>Haste (Mastery greater than Haste) and the 3rd one is Haste=Mastery (Haste equal to Mastery). The POS can change in both the number of points or rather the value of each of the stats and the Priority of the 2 stats too. Priority of the 2 stats is the Higher Stat of the 2 stats available. You can also get equal stats. This all changes with the Last Name of, or rather type/kind of, or what I will finally be calling it, the Brand of the crafted Item. I’ll get back to this in a minute.

I always place the higher valued stat on the left of the 2 stats.

Different Kinds of Crafted Items

This is only Level 110 Legion Crafted Gear that starts at item level 850 that is here.

Cendre d'oblitérium next to an item is showing a range of how much ash I have gotten from Obliterating that item. I started to keep track of them only after i started writing this guide so there aren't many items that I have it next to.

Brand

- The last name of crafted Items- I don’t know what else to call it so I made it simple. It’s the type of gear that is crafted. The last name or word on the item that is made. This is what changes the POS Stats. The different types of crafted Brands are called, Adaptable, Aurora, Decimator, Feverflare, Fireflash, Harmonious, Impatient, Peerless, Quickblade, and Savant. I don’t think I’m missing any but anything is possible.

Here I have sorted out what each Brand represents. Most Brands have 2 POS that are created with a crafted Item. There are a few though that only have a single POS. These that only have a single POS have that 1 Stat higher than normal ones. Almost like it’s been doubled or you can say has a High Single POS to it. Probably because of just that. It’s a lone Off Stat. There is one for each, Versatility, Critical Strike, Haste, Mastery . I’ve seen the stat value or points of these at around 1300+ . Not much higher than that though.

Brand List

Adaptable - Has a single Off Stat and it is a High Versatility Off Stat. Aurora - is Versatility and Haste . Decimator - Has a single Off Stat and it is a High Critical Strike Off Stat. Feverflare - is Haste, Mastery . Fireflash - is Haste, Critical Strike . Harmonious - is Versatility, Mastery . Impatient - Has a Single Off Stat and it is High Haste Peerless – Mastery, Critical Strike . Quickblade - is Versatility, Critical Strike . Savant - Has a single Off Stat and it is a High Mastery Off Stat.

The order of the Off Stats Priority can change. If you make more than 1 item with the same Brand you will find that it can go from having a Higher Value of one of the stats it has to having a Higher Value in the other stat that it is grouped with. For example: If you make a Brand of Feverflare you will find it to be a Haste, Mastery Off Stat with Haste having the higher value between both of those stats. If you make a second or even third Brand of Feverflare you will notice that even though it is a Feverflare , now Mastery could have the Higher Value between both stats. So instead of Haste, Mastery it is now Mastery, Haste. It’s the same 2 Off Stats just swapping the higher value. It can also make a Feverflare with equal values on each side. I explained this earlier but added an actual Brand into it now.

All of this info comes in very handy when you’re looking to make or buy crafted gear for your alts. You just keep trying to make the same type of, or rather, Brand of items until you find the ones with the base Off Stats that you want. These are crafted. You can make them until you run out of material or get what you are looking for. You can then either sell in the auction house the ones that have made with the right stats for other classes and Obliterate the others or Obliterate and or sell the whole lot. Your choice.

You may have a crafted piece of gear you just want to hang on to, to see if you get better gear as a drop from somewhere else. Worst case, Upgrade the crafted one. Each slot of gear has its own base range of the POS for that slot that it starts off with. I just don’t have those numbers. I know for sure it’s like that on cloaks. That’s further down in this guide though.

If you upgrade a crafted item it becomes souldbound and you can not trade it anymore. Know this before you upgrade.

Just so you know. BRANDS of EACH item you make ARE CRAFTED RANDOMLY. You cannot pick the Brand you want to make. You can be wanting a Brand of Feverflare but end up with a Peerless Brand instead. This is true for just about ALL Crafted gear in Legion. Any of the Brands you are hoping for can become something else instead. It’s a horrible money sink if you are low on cash to begin with and are trying to craft what you need. Know this ahead of time before you begin crafting any Legion Item. If you need a particular Stat Priority, check the Auction House first before making items. It may be a lot cheaper that way.

What I just explained here works for most Legion Crafted gear that can be scaled from 850 - 900. In the end, you can end up with crafted items with the closest correct stats that you might be looking for. Maximizing your character’s potential is what you are trying to do. Knowing all of this also allows people who don’t craft items to also shop in the Auction House with some sense of what they should or could be looking for too now. Just look for the Brand of the item you want and see the differences in stats of the same Brands that are in the Auction House. If there are any up at that time. Compare and Buy (Shopping!)

Prices may start to be jacked up now for gear of matching type with the more appealing stats for that gear. By matching type I mean, Cloth, Leather, Mail, and Plate matched up to the popular or chased after stats. You never know. I could be wrong.

The amount of Cendre d'oblitérium you get is ranged differently by the different Crafted item slots that you can create and then obliterate. Not by the different Brands you get for a crafted item of the same slot. There is a range of ash you get for each slot. Each slot is different.

Sorting It Out

Here I will Sort out Brands for each Class and each Spec of those Classes.

This information I sorted out by knowing what I know about Crafted Legion gear and seeing what was said in Icy-Veins about Class Priority Off Stats. It helps a lot to have a general idea of what you more or less should be looking for in each class and spec for each class.

An example of how it reads when an item is made is: Imbued Silkweave bracers of the Feverflare . These would-be bracers that are Mastery, Haste or Haste, Mastery are for cloth wearers. Just check the list and see who it matches. Notice that it matches up with an Affliction Warlock. It’s what an Affliction Warlock would probably be looking for in crafted gear for bracers. This was a Cloth example.

I have placed the Main Off Stat Priority first in all of these. The higher valued Off Stat first if you will. The order in which Icy-Veins places them in. It is the stat on the left of the two stats in this guide. There could be more than 1 set of POS per Spec and class. I placed what I knew. I also placed in a random order the classes that wear the different type of gear that are crafted with Brands of gear that match them. More or less what each spec should actually be looking for. There are links here that take you directly to the Icy-Veins pages for each Spec of class you’re looking for too.

After I completed this guide but before I submitted it, I looked on Wowhead itself to see what they had said on stat priorities for each class. I had overlooked Stat priorities of Wowhead, Sorry! I normally check Icy-Veins for that.

I’ve created links to what I have found on off specs in Wowhead to here now. This is in case you were wondering if Wowhead had anything on them. They are the links after the brands for each spec that say Wowhead . I figured I’d add them in so you can take look at them. I found them under Gear links for each class.I had already created this guide around Icy-veins suggestions so I’m leaving in what I have.

If there is more than 1 build to a spec I have numbered them. I also only placed the Wowhead link to just the first build.

Here, Critical Strike I placed as Crit and Versatility I placed as Vers .

** ** I made my Main cast at very fast speeds. Meaning my cast time bar moved fast. My Main is an Affliction Warlock. This was pre-Argus that I did this. I stopped playing for a few months and am coming back. The stats I used were Haste before Mastery not Mastery before Haste as Icy-Veins says. I am making sure to state it so you can see it for yourself in your own test build, If you try it. My Crit was 21%, My Haste was 25%, and My Mastery was 109%. I made sure to find gear with more Haste than Mastery. My Haste I will now chase at around 25% or better but am fine with 25%. A lot of my gear has higher Haste than Mastery. Mastery seems to come up either way so why bother chasing Mastery when I want to cast faster anyways. You do what you want, but I made my Warlock for Speed Casting. Anyone who has played a Warlock knows that some spells have very long cast times. I hate that. I play Affliction though and I like playing that spec so I made my Warlock built around speed or Speed casting. I'm going to be coming back into the game and again wanted this written somewhere so I am placing it in this guide so I could find it again when I need it but am allowing you to see it for yourselves. I will soon be getting my gear back up to par and will be referencing this. All you have to do is try it, the Haste at 25% or better, and you will see the speed casting. Then you just have to adjust the rest of your gear to damage around the speed that you find that you like or feel comfortable with, if you do this. You will see that you will have a lot more fun than you were having with Affliction, If you play Affliction. I say you will because i did, you are your own individual though, you do you, not me. / I added this note on 4/2/2018 around 9pm. ** **

An example of how it reads when made is: Gravenscale armbands of the Feverflare . Notice that it is Mastery, Haste or can be Haste, Mastery. It’s a wrist that matches up with a Chasseur that is Survival spec OR even a Chaman that is Enhance spec.

*** The Aurora Brand usually is Crafted with more Versatility than Haste. I haven't seen more Haste than Versatility yet on crafted items. Just be aware of this so you dont look to hard for that in Crafted gear.

*** The Aurora Brand usually is Crafted with more Versatility than Haste. I haven't seen more Haste than Versatility yet on crafted items. Just be aware of this so you dont look to hard for that in Crafted gear.

An example of how it reads when made is: Dreadleather belt of the Fireflash . It’s a Crit, Haste Spec. It matches up with a Chasseur de démons that is Havoc spec. So, a Chasseur de démons would be looking to buy or make that belt.

I’m going to tell you here. If I craft something that I can’t match up to this list by Type of Amor and Priority Off Stats I obliterate it. It is not worth my time to try and sell it in the Auction House when I know that no class would want what I just made. Like I said already. Prices may start to go up in the Auction House. If stat priorities change at all, the Brand of a spec may be different from what is listed in a spec. Brands do not change though. Just match up the new stat priorities to a Brand to have the correct stat for that spec. Let me know if you find any of these changes.

This is gear that is item level 850 to start out with. Even if you don’t upgrade the crafted items that you may have, you can still use it to help you get into places that can get you higher level gear fast. These can be equipped as soon as you hit level 110. You can get into Heroics, Mythics and even LFR's with a full set of 850 Crafted gear as soon as you hit level 110.

If you upgrade a crafted item or not is totally up to you. Some players can buy or make a particular slot item just because they are lacking in a slot they already have something in. I have done it. I saw that the item level of one of my slots was low and I had the Oblitérium and Sang de Sargeras to upgrade 1 slot so I did it, I took the crafted item I had and upgraded it to 900. In turn, I swapped out my gear for the crafted piece.

On a side note - I noticed lower level gear that are just drops and that are not crafted selling in the Auction house with the same Brands on the items. If you don’t have heirloom gear and want to maximize your toon at lower levels you can buy those for you lower level characters.

Jewelcrafting

– JoaillerieFor Jewelcrafting it’s the same concept. You create the rings and necklaces and look for a particular type or last name to it for the stat priority you’re looking for. With what you know now you can easily match up what would work out best for your character.

Types of Legion craftable 110 rings. These all have a white stat that is 1000 Stamina. They all also have a base greenoff stat placed on them that is 1130 in the crafting book. These are Haste, Vers, Crit, or Mastery. One per kind of ring. This is what makes them different. The green stat is there and you get an additional green stat once you make the ring. This second stat is the random additional stat you get per type of ring or different Brand. Once you make a ring the 1st green stat value can change to higher than what the crafting book says in addition to getting another random one. Rings also all get a socket so you can add a gem.

Types of craftable necklaces -These have actual classes stated on them in the crafting book. So that is already sorted out in game. You just have to match up the type you want now for the off stats. Again, this can be a money sink if you are trying to make these because the Brand you want is made randomly. I obliterate what I make that doesn’t match up to my list. All necklaces also have a socket and an additional on Use or Equip buff to them. Not both, just one.

Now on to Cloaks

Cloaks only use some of the Brands when made. Cloaks are ONLY made by Tailors but are made for All of the Classes to use. I have to give credit to Babian for posting what he knew about cloaks on Wowhead. It was from me finding his/her post on Wowhead that sparked my interest in trying to sort the rest of this all out. This was the post Check the Comments Tab . There is only 1 comment there at the moment and it’s his. That’s how this being written all started. It was a combination of his post, me knowing about professions and me finding information about stat priorities. The simple way it came to be.

Here is what I have on Cloaks

There are 4 different cloaks that can be made. They have their own names and they are -

These have 3 specific Brands to each them. I have not seen any other Brands on cloaks. Cover and Shade have the exact same Brands and make the exact same gear. So, pick either of them to get the same results. The stat priority on cloaks doesn't change like on previous gear either.

- Fireflash is Haste, Crit . Sometimes you get back a single stat of Haste .

- Peerless is Mastery, Crit . Sometimes you get back a single stat of Mastery .

- Quickblade is Vers, Crit . Sometimes you get back a single stat of Versatility .

What I have noticed on all cloaks is the stats are pretty much the same that they start out with. The value of the stats on these cloaks are 688, 137 or 550,275 and the single stat ones are 826 or 781 . You can match up your Class with the stats that you use and the stats on the cloaks to figure out what kind and Brand on the cloak is right for you.

That’s all that I have right now on Crafted Gear. I hope this info was helpful.

Thank You and Thoughts

This was my first time writing a guide or even coding. If you find any mistakes anywhere let me know so I can fix them.

I have to say thank you to SquireKel for having the Guide Guide Writing for Dummies written. I had my guide written on paper and saw his guide and then decided to learn from it. I added BBCode that I was slowly learning to my guide so it would look right when I was ready to post it. I don't think I did badly it all ... You reading this be the judges of that. Let me know what you think.

I also reached out to SquireKel too, because I didn’t know where to find the code for the different colors that are available. He tells you in the guide that there is a menu but I couldn't find it on my own. He wrote me back with a screenshot of what I was looking for. I found them in an icon that has a drop-down menu that you can see when you first look to try and add a guide to Wowhead. I hadn't looked there because I was still writing my guide and not trying to add it yet. Thank you for showing me where to look.

The only thing I still can't do is make Tables. I'm sure there are other things too but this what I'm stuck on that I was trying to do at the moment. I was trying to make tables to sort out the different Specs with the Classes but I kept getting stuck with only one of the specs showing up, and not all of the columns were filled either. I'm just putting that out there in case someone has input on that. I don't have to reach out to anyone though. I wanted the class on the top left and then in the next column, 1 row below it, a spec, and then on that same row in the next column the Green POS, and the next column of that same row Brand and then Wowhead on the last. Then add the other specs in the rows underneath in the same manner. After that, I would make the Table in the same manner for each Class and spec until it was complete.

I made do with what I had though, and I'm ok with it.

I typed my guide up on Word so I could get the spell checks in right. Wowhead has a spot though where you can store a guide your writing up and allows you to edit it and see it's outcome before it's actually even completed and or posted. I did not know that. Create New Guide is the link to it. Very useful to know.

Thank You Icy-Veins for having your info on all classes sorted out. I hope you don’t mind me linking to you from here.

Also, a Thank you goes out to Babian for having info that he had on cloaks posted on Wowhead. It sparked my interest and I sorted it out

A Big Thank you goes to Wowhead for all of the info you keep track of and having a place where people could find almost anything that they are looking for that is in-game. Also a place now where I can store this guide :)

In case anyone is looking to get their crafting up, here's a link to a site you can use. Wow-Professions It's very helpful.

Between work, playing WOW, Learning to use Wowhead's code and actually using it, it took me from 6-27-2017 thru 7-6-2017 to finish this guide. I already had my notes. I just had to learn some code and put it together.

Let me know what you think.

George C. look at my profile here on Wowhead.My Profile on Quora.com is here. https://www.quora.com/profile/George-Carreno If you look at my profile here on Wowhead you will see other stuff. You will see what happened to me in real life too. You will not believe it. I am becoming my own character in real life. I am harnessing the power of my soul. I teach you exactly what to do. No Lying here. Real easy. Seeing is Believing. You try it for yourself. All you have to do is read down through my profile on Quora and you will see it hidden there. Only if you read through, will you find it. Gamers, We ROCK! Timestamp of this added 3/22/18.

Commentaires

Commentaire de Clinh

Excellent guide, thank you. My only question is that according to Icy Veins the stat priority for an Arcane Mage is Haste>Versatility>Crit, not Versatility>Crit as this guide shows, I don't understand this.